"It didn't actually have any graphical interface at all, you actually had to put a piece of plastic in front of your TV screen," Mr Peach said.

"All it did was project a dot that moved around."

Market crashes due to 'crap' games

From those early beginnings, the video game industry began to take off and a host of games and consoles were released around the world until the industry suddenly crashed in 1983, an event detailed in the museum.

The reason was simple.

"Ninety per cent of the games were crap," Mr Peach said.

The market had become saturated with poor-quality games and consumers lost interest.

The industry was thought to be over and Japanese game company Atari even had thousands of consoles buried in landfill in New Mexico.